John Schmitt
Biographic Data
| ID | 4120712 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John Schmitt |
| GIVEN NAMES | John |
| FAMILY NAME | Schmitt |
| SIGNATURE | SCHMITT J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Center for Economic and Policy Research |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 134 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The State of Working America: 1994-95
Drawing on a variety of data on family incomes, taxes, wages, employment, wealth, health care and poverty, this text provides a portrait of the living standards of Americans in the mid-1990s. It contains up-to-date data from the US Census
Trends in Job Quality for African-American Workers, 1979–2011
Economists expect that increases in education and work experience will increase workers’ productivity and translate into higher compensation. We use data from the March Current Population Survey (CPS) to show that over the past four decades, the “human capital” of the employed black workforce has increased enormously, yet the share of black workers in a “good job” –one that pays at least $19 per hour (in inflation-adjusted 2011 dollars), has empl…
Wage Inequality: A Story of Policy Choices
America's “New Class: A Profile of the Long-Term Unemployed
Who cares? assessing generosity and gender equality in parental leave policy designs in 21 countries
Parental leave laws can support new parents in two complementary ways: by offering job-protected leave and by offering financial support during that leave. This study assesses the design of parental leave policies operating in 21 high-income countries. Specifically, the study analyzes how these countries vary with respect to the generosity of their parental leave policies; the extent to which their policy designs are gender egalitarian; and the w…
Are Protective Labor Market Institutions at the Root of Unemployment? A Critical Review of the Evidence
A rapidly expanding empirical literature has addressed the widely accepted claim that employment-unfriendly labor market institutions explain the pattern of unemployment across countries. The main culprits are held to be protective institutions, namely unemployment benefit entitlements, employment protection laws, and trade unions. Our assessment of the evidence offers little support for this orthodox view. The most compelling finding of the cros…
Is Globalization Undermining the Welfare State? The Evolution of the Welfare State in Developed Capitalist Countries during the 1990s
The authors analyze the evolution of macro-indicators of social and economic well-being during the 1990s in the majority of developed capitalist countries, grouped according to their dominant political traditions since the end of World War II. Their analysis shows that, despite the economic globalization of commerce and finance, “politics still matters” in explaining the evolution of the welfare states and labor markets in these countries; the im…
Is globalisation undermining the welfare state?
This paper analyses the evolution of the welfare states in the majority of OECD countries during the pre-globalisation (1946–80) and globalisation (1980–2000) periods. Our purpose is to find out whether globalisation has produced a convergence towards a smaller welfare state, funded increasingly by non-mobile factors such as labour, property and consumption rather than by mobile factors such as capital. The data presented here challenge the claim…
Who cares? assessing generosity and gender equality in parental leave policy designs in 21 countries
Parental leave laws can support new parents in two complementary ways: by offering job-protected leave and by offering financial support during that leave. This study assesses the design of parental leave policies operating in 21 high-income countries. Specifically, the study analyzes how these countries vary with respect to the generosity of their parental leave policies; the extent to which their policy designs are gender egalitarian; and the w…
Wage Inequality: A Story of Policy Choices
Trends in Job Quality for African-American Workers, 1979–2011
Economists expect that increases in education and work experience will increase workers’ productivity and translate into higher compensation. We use data from the March Current Population Survey (CPS) to show that over the past four decades, the “human capital” of the employed black workforce has increased enormously, yet the share of black workers in a “good job” –one that pays at least $19 per hour (in inflation-adjusted 2011 dollars), has empl…
America's “New Class: A Profile of the Long-Term Unemployed
Is Globalization Undermining the Welfare State? The Evolution of the Welfare State in Developed Capitalist Countries during the 1990s
The authors analyze the evolution of macro-indicators of social and economic well-being during the 1990s in the majority of developed capitalist countries, grouped according to their dominant political traditions since the end of World War II. Their analysis shows that, despite the economic globalization of commerce and finance, “politics still matters” in explaining the evolution of the welfare states and labor markets in these countries; the im…
Is globalisation undermining the welfare state?
This paper analyses the evolution of the welfare states in the majority of OECD countries during the pre-globalisation (1946–80) and globalisation (1980–2000) periods. Our purpose is to find out whether globalisation has produced a convergence towards a smaller welfare state, funded increasingly by non-mobile factors such as labour, property and consumption rather than by mobile factors such as capital. The data presented here challenge the claim…
Are Protective Labor Market Institutions at the Root of Unemployment? A Critical Review of the Evidence
A rapidly expanding empirical literature has addressed the widely accepted claim that employment-unfriendly labor market institutions explain the pattern of unemployment across countries. The main culprits are held to be protective institutions, namely unemployment benefit entitlements, employment protection laws, and trade unions. Our assessment of the evidence offers little support for this orthodox view. The most compelling finding of the cros…
Who cares? assessing generosity and gender equality in parental leave policy designs in 21 countries
Parental leave laws can support new parents in two complementary ways: by offering job-protected leave and by offering financial support during that leave. This study assesses the design of parental leave policies operating in 21 high-income countries. Specifically, the study analyzes how these countries vary with respect to the generosity of their parental leave policies; the extent to which their policy designs are gender egalitarian; and the w…
America's “New Class: A Profile of the Long-Term Unemployed
Wage Inequality: A Story of Policy Choices
Trends in Job Quality for African-American Workers, 1979–2011
Economists expect that increases in education and work experience will increase workers’ productivity and translate into higher compensation. We use data from the March Current Population Survey (CPS) to show that over the past four decades, the “human capital” of the employed black workforce has increased enormously, yet the share of black workers in a “good job” –one that pays at least $19 per hour (in inflation-adjusted 2011 dollars), has empl…
The State of Working America: 1994-95
Drawing on a variety of data on family incomes, taxes, wages, employment, wealth, health care and poverty, this text provides a portrait of the living standards of Americans in the mid-1990s. It contains up-to-date data from the US Census
Economics (7 works) · Employment and Welfare Studies (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Labour economics (4 works) · Social Policy and Reform Studies (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Economic growth (3 works) · Labor market dynamics and wage inequality (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · State (computer science) (3 works)